This is an analysis of the poem Cliques Picked that begins with:

Likability,
And the keeping of one's social status......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabbcdXdX XeaaeXe XeXXXeaeeaXAECAACAECAACAaee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,27,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10000 1010011010 111010010 010011011 100101001 1100010101 0101010001 1001001 010101000110 10000 11010100111 1101010 01000101001 0010101110001 01110001001 11101010111 110 01111 1001111010 11010010 111111101 101101010000 010001011010 110000110100101 0100101100100 1101010010101 1100 011 101000111 1100 00 101000111 1100 011 101000111 1100 00 101000111 1100 111001100 1100 0100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 339
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word who is repeated.

    The author used the same word likability at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines benefits, it are repeated).

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  • summary of Cliques Picked;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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